David March

David March (18 February 1925, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire – 25 August 1999, London) was an English actor who had a prominent career on British radio from 1953 until his death 45 years later. In 1985, he received the Radio Academy Award for Best Radio Actor for his performance in a dramatisation of Mr Norris Changes Trains. In 1946 and 1947, he was committed to the theatrical seasons at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre where he portrayed Patroclus in Troilus and Cressida and the roles of Philostrate and Francis Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other roles he excelled in at the Oxford Playhouse included Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet, Rupert Cadell in Rope, and Roland Maule in Present Laughter among others. In 1959, he portrayed the title role in Henri Ghéon's The Marriage of Saint Francis at the Maddermarket Theatre. The same year, he starred in James Roose-Evans's Stories and Designs at the Hampstead Theatre; a one-man show written for March based on the writings of Virginia Woolf. At Hampstead, he also appeared as Tiresias in Oedipus Rex and in Marguerite Duras's The Square.

In April 1954, March portrayed John de Stogumber in Esme Percy's staging of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan with at the Q Theatre with Rachel Kempson as the title heroine; a role which he repeated at the Cambridge Drama Festival in 1956 with Siobhan McKenna as Joan. His work in that play drew the attention of radio producer R. D. Smith, and led to his first job performing on radio in 1953. From 1965 on, March only performed in radio and television, and never returned to stage performance. His radio career was ubiquitous and spanned a 45-year period in which he excelled in radio dramas. One of the programmes he was associated with was the role of Richard Fulton in Mrs Dale's Diary (1954–1969).

His life partner was Derek Lewis.